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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. The Past (1985-2002).

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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Specific Steps for Static Sites For each page that needs share links, you’ll need to paste the HTML above and replace replace everything with double square brackets with the information from the page. > You now have two varibles, $shortlink and $shorttitle, that can be used when creating the HTML for the Twitter share badges.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65